Positive Brains Are Smarter Brains: Discover how educators can help students take charge of thoughts, feelings, and brain chemistry to steer themselves toward positive learning outcomes. (Edutopia, 2015)

Metacognition: The Gift That Keeps Giving: Explore how students can become stronger, more independent learners by reflecting on learning, and try out strategies that can facilitate this process. (Edutopia, 2014)

Applying Neuroscience in the Classroom

Putting Working Memory to Work in Learning: Explore techniques like repetition, gamification, visualization, and peer teaching to help activate and, over time, enhance the central executive function of working memory. (Edutopia, 2015)

Educator Resources From BrainFacts.org: Find resources and activities to help teach students about the brain; available resources include interactives, videos, lesson plans and more -- sorted by grade, topic, and resource type. (BrainFacts.org)

Social and Emotional Learning and the Brain

Brain Labs: A Place to Enliven Learning: Consider creating a brain lab in your classroom or school to teach children about metacognition and develop skills for self-reflection, attention, emotional regulation, and cognitive flexibility. (Edutopia, 2015)

Brains in Pain Cannot Learn!: Understand how trauma affects the brain, and read about three ways to calm the stress response and ready brains for learning. (Edutopia, 2016)

Cracking the Code of Student Emotional Pain: Learn about three collaborative processes that will help reset expectations and rethink outcomes in the face of academic, emotional, or social challenges. (Edutopia, 2015)

Training the Brain to Listen: Learn how the brain processes auditory information, and find out how to introduce the HEAR strategy as a way to help students develop their listening skills. (Edutopia, 2014)

Survive and Thrive During Testing Season: Consider some questions you should ask yourself during testing season, and explore brain-compatible strategies to help students feel better about themselves and more connected to the material. (Edutopia, 2014)

Brain-Compatible Study Strategies: Explore an array of brain-compatible study strategies for fifth graders, methods that can be adapted for use at any age. (Edutopia, 2013)

Neuroscience and the Common Core

6 Ways to Build Independent Thinking: Try out one of several suggestions, aligned to Common Core, for pushing students beyond their comfort zone, exercising brains’ executive functions, and developing independent thinking. (Edutopia, 2014)

Research on How the Brain Works

The High Cost of Neuromyths in Education: Learn what neuroscience research has to say about the right/left brain, learning styles, and the idea that we use only ten percent of our brains. (Edutopia, 2015)

Why Curiosity Enhances Learning: Read about a neurological study that has demonstrated that curiosity makes our brains more receptive for learning. (Edutopia, 2014)